This is news cast 213, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
In the intro, thanks to new monthly donor, Jamie. Also, I was
interviewed for Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio, part of Hacker Public Radio. My part starts around minute twenty-three. Lastly, I will be interviewing Cory Doctorow about his latest YA novel, "
For the Win". I'm scheduled to do so on Thursday, the 13th, so if you have any questions for him, get them to me before then.
This week's security alerts are
a new attack technique that bypasses most common antivirus programs demonstrated by
matousec.com and
study that shows programming language choice doesn't affect security.
In this week's news
Hugo Gernsback as futurist (I've
read more about him as a publisher) including some
criticism of his views of the place of science in science fiction,
why computers crash but biology does not,
a rallying cry for parallelism even though
the trend is well established and the challenges hard then first supposed, and Google releases a
code lab and
sources to teach and learn security through reading code and hands on exercises.
Following up this week
the FCC's third way to pursue network neutrality and
the FCC allows selectable output control with some qualifications.